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Dr Barry York - Social Policy Group
Last updated 16 June 2003
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Table 1: Humanitarian Arrivals (Assisted),
Financial Years 194748 to 197475
Table 2: Humanitarian Arrivals, Financial
Years 194748 to 199091
Table 3: Humanitarian Arrivals, Financial
Years 199192 to 200001
Table 4: Humanitarian Program by Country of
Birth, 19911992 to 20012002
Table 5: Estimated Global Refugee Population
and 'Persons of Concern' to the UNHCR, 19782002(a)
Table 6: Ministers of Immigration, Ministries
and gross annual settler intake, 19451991(a)
Table 7: Onshore Asylum Applications
19892002
Table 8: Unauthorised Arrivals by Air and Sea,
198990 to 200102
|
Financial
Year
|
Number of
assisted humanitarian arrivals
|
|
January 1947 to June
1948
|
5 138
|
|
194849
|
33 816
|
|
194950
|
89 199
|
|
195051
|
36 912
|
|
195152
|
4 934
|
|
195253
|
664
|
|
195354
|
3 248
|
|
195455
|
1 534
|
|
195556
|
521
|
|
195657
|
11 070
|
|
195758
|
6 759
|
|
195859
|
4 118
|
|
195960
|
3 969
|
|
196061
|
3 413
|
|
196162
|
946
|
|
196263
|
1 375
|
|
196364
|
2 040
|
|
196465
|
1 609
|
|
196566
|
2 177
|
|
196667
|
1 805
|
|
196768
|
3 226
|
|
196869
|
7 613
|
|
196970
|
16 495
|
|
197071
|
11 812
|
|
197172
|
3 259
|
|
197273
|
2 512
|
|
197374
|
1 228
|
|
197475
|
514
|
|
|
|
Note:
Between January 1947 and 195253, all were Displaced Persons. The
Scheme was discontinued in January 1954. An estimated additional
33 000 humanitarian cases were not assisted by government.
Sources: Compiled from
Australian Immigration: Consolidated Statistics, Nos 1, 1966, 4,
1970, Department of Immigration, AGPS, 1966 and 1970, and No. 13,
1982.
|
Financial
Year
|
Refugee Program
Arrivals
Number
|
Special
Humanitarian Program (a) Arrivals
Number
|
Total
Humanitarian Arrivals
Number
|
|
194748 to 197475
(Estimated Assisted Refugees) (b)
|
(b)264 053
|
n/a
|
264 053
|
|
194748 to197475 (Estimated
Unassisted Refugees)
|
33 000
|
n/a
|
33 000
|
|
197576
|
4 374
|
n/a
|
4 374
|
|
197677
|
8 124
|
n/a
|
8 124
|
|
197778
|
9 597
|
n/a
|
9 597
|
|
197879
|
13 450
|
n/a
|
13 450
|
|
197980
|
19 954
|
n/a
|
19 954
|
|
198081
|
21 847
|
n/a
|
21 847
|
|
198182
|
20 216
|
1 701
|
21 917
|
|
198283
|
16 193
|
861
|
17 054
|
|
198384
|
12 330
|
2 439
|
14 769
|
|
198485
|
9 680
|
5 170
|
14 850
|
|
198586
|
7 837
|
4 003
|
11 840
|
|
198687
|
5 990
|
5 111
|
11 101
|
|
198788
|
5 304
|
5 772
|
11 076
|
|
198889
|
3 623
|
7 264
|
10 887
|
|
198990
|
1 537
|
10 411
|
11 948
|
|
199091
|
1 267
|
6 478
|
7 745
|
Notes:
(a) Special Humanitarian Program (introduced late in 1981)
(b) Includes an estimated 170 000 displaced persons who
arrived between 1947 and 1954.
Source: DIMA (unpublished
tabulations)
|
Financial
Year
|
Refugee Program
Arrivals
|
Special
Humanitarian Program (a) Arrivals
|
Special
Assistance Category Arrivals
|
Total
Humanitarian Arrivals
|
|
199192
|
2 385
|
4 320
|
452
|
7 157
|
|
199293
|
2 686
|
3 169
|
5 082
|
10 939
|
|
199394
|
3 845
|
2 563
|
4 942
|
11,350
|
|
199495
|
4 006
|
3 774
|
5 852
|
13 632
|
|
199596
|
4 060
|
3 617
|
6 147
|
13 824
|
|
199697
|
3 372
|
2 120
|
4 394
|
9 886
|
|
199798
|
3 553
|
3 033
|
2 193
|
8 779
|
|
199899
|
3 269
|
4 614
|
907
|
8 790
|
|
199900
|
3 429
|
3 022
|
816
|
7 267
|
|
200001 (a)
|
4 129
|
2 701
|
795
|
7 625
|
Note:
(a) Figures for 200102 are from DIMIA's Settlement database.
Figures that incorporate the Overseas Arrivals and Departures (OAD)
database will not be available until later in 2002. The figure will
not be much different. In 199900, for instance, the Settlement
Database figure was 7 313 humanitarian permanent arrivals compared
to the OAD figure of 7 267.
| |
Financial Year
|
|
Birthplace
|
9192
|
9293
|
9394
|
9495
|
9596
|
9697
|
9798
|
9899
|
9900
|
0001
|
0102
|
|
Oceania
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Europe & the Former
USSR
|
|
Bosnia-Herzegovina -
|
-
|
219
|
733
|
2 026
|
1 214
|
1 603
|
1 180
|
573
|
672
|
324
|
|
Croatia
|
55
|
174
|
89
|
78
|
379
|
691
|
1 096
|
1 225
|
1 001
|
1 166
|
563
|
|
Germany
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
95
|
59
|
|
Greece
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
16
|
|
Poland
|
2
|
4
|
3
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Romania
|
42
|
5
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Ukraine
|
171
|
345
|
36
|
5
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
4
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Fed. Rep. Of Yugoslavia -
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1 484
|
1 417
|
|
Other
|
1 583
|
4 363
|
4 950
|
4 986
|
5 417
|
2 205
|
2 585
|
2 273
|
1 836
|
36
|
33
|
|
Total
|
1 853
|
4 891
|
5 297
|
5 802
|
7 822
|
4 110
|
5 284
|
4 682
|
3 410
|
3 453
|
2 412
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Middle East
and North Africa
|
|
Egypt
|
10
|
25
|
19
|
39
|
33
|
38
|
21
|
34
|
23
|
73
|
111
|
|
Iran
|
240
|
78
|
225
|
468
|
485
|
303
|
378
|
424
|
366
|
441
|
212
|
|
Iraq
|
1 904
|
1 090
|
1 434
|
2 310
|
2 009
|
1 624
|
1 635
|
1 546
|
1 091
|
893
|
881
|
|
Kuwait
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
21
|
-
|
|
Lebanon
|
116
|
13
|
-
|
3
|
-
|
-
|
5
|
11
|
4
|
-
|
-
|
|
Sudan
|
21
|
148
|
293
|
295
|
320
|
390
|
493
|
632
|
924
|
1 107
|
1 046
|
|
Turkey
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
16
|
129
|
|
Other
|
137
|
28
|
41
|
15
|
4
|
22
|
97
|
194
|
232
|
113
|
70
|
|
Total
|
2 428
|
1 382
|
2 012
|
3 130
|
2 851
|
2 377
|
2 629
|
2 841
|
2 640
|
2 664
|
2 449
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Southeast Asia
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Burma (Myanmar) 1
|
112
|
378
|
524
|
379
|
236
|
104
|
97
|
49
|
83
|
100
|
|
Cambodia
|
9
|
6
|
614
|
580
|
584
|
152
|
-
|
14
|
3
|
-
|
-
|
|
Indonesia
|
436
|
193
|
52
|
128
|
129
|
82
|
-
|
-
|
2
|
-
|
-
|
|
Thailand
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
9
|
|
Viet Nam
|
1 525
|
2 207
|
2 277
|
1 542
|
745
|
638
|
396
|
45
|
17
|
17
|
44
|
|
Other
|
123
|
79
|
57
|
116
|
22
|
-
|
5
|
8
|
-
|
14
|
5
|
|
Total
|
2 094
|
2 597
|
3 378
|
2 890
|
1 859
|
1 108
|
505
|
164
|
71
|
114
|
158
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Northeast
Asia
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
12
|
6
|
15
|
12
|
7
|
7
|
13
|
10
|
12
|
7
|
23
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Southern Asia
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Afghanistan
|
509
|
563
|
415
|
332
|
510
|
312
|
775
|
662
|
450
|
322
|
521
|
|
Pakistan
|
2
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
45
|
48
|
56
|
77
|
31
|
104
|
25
|
|
Sri Lanka
|
1
|
2
|
17
|
238
|
254
|
254
|
160
|
101
|
29
|
102
|
53
|
|
Other
|
-
|
3
|
1
|
-
|
13
|
2
|
4
|
5
|
5
|
5
|
12
|
|
Total
|
512
|
569
|
433
|
570
|
822
|
616
|
995
|
845
|
515
|
533
|
611
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Northern America
|
|
Total
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
South America, Central
America & the
Caribbean
|
|
Colombia
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
13
|
|
El Salvador
|
916
|
288
|
132
|
154
|
137
|
77
|
49
|
7
|
9
|
5
|
-
|
|
Other
|
36
|
9
|
17
|
24
|
41
|
-
|
1
|
17
|
10
|
9
|
13
|
|
Total
|
952
|
297
|
149
|
178
|
178
|
77
|
50
|
24
|
19
|
14
|
26
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Africa (excl. North
Africa)
|
|
Eritrea
|
-
|
1
|
61
|
228
|
159
|
120
|
102
|
170
|
185
|
105
|
108
|
|
Ethiopia
|
380
|
575
|
359
|
255
|
216
|
164
|
172
|
196
|
211
|
268
|
227
|
|
Kenya
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
43
|
-
|
|
Liberia
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
110
|
|
Sierra Leone
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
128
|
323
|
|
Somalia
|
116
|
124
|
300
|
390
|
352
|
397
|
611
|
457
|
254
|
213
|
192
|
|
Other
|
52
|
56
|
25
|
-
|
10
|
2
|
6
|
16
|
89
|
67
|
79
|
|
Total
|
548
|
756
|
745
|
873
|
737
|
683
|
891
|
839
|
739
|
824
|
1 039
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other and Not Stated -
|
16
|
17
|
7
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
5
|
4
|
14
|
13
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
All Countries
|
8 399
|
10 515
|
12 046
|
13 462
|
14 276
|
8 979
|
10 367
|
9 410
|
7 424
|
7 625
|
6 732
|
Source: DIMIA
|
Year
|
Refugee
population
(millions)
|
Persons of
concern (b)
(millions)
|
|
1978
|
3.1
|
|
|
1979
|
4.6
|
|
|
1980
|
5.3
|
|
|
1981
|
8.2
|
|
|
1982
|
9.7
|
|
|
1983
|
10.3
|
|
|
1984
|
10.9
|
|
|
1985
|
10.5
|
|
|
1986
|
11.2
|
|
|
1987
|
12.2
|
|
|
1988
|
13.2
|
|
|
1989
|
14.9
|
|
|
1990
|
14.8
|
|
|
1991
|
17.2
|
|
|
1992
|
16.9
|
|
|
1993
|
16.2
|
23.0
|
|
1994
|
15.6
|
27.4
|
|
1995
|
14.8
|
26.1
|
|
1996
|
13.3
|
22.7
|
|
1997
|
11.9
|
22.3
|
|
1998
|
11.4
|
21.4
|
|
1999
|
11.6
|
22.2
|
|
2000
|
12.0
|
21.8
|
|
2001
|
12.0
|
19.7
|
Notes:
(a) All figures are for year ending 31
December.
(b) This category was not enumerated by UNHCR prior to 1993.
Source: UNHCR website: Statistics page and
UNHCR, The State of the world's refugees, 19971998, Oxford
University Press, 1997, p. 54. Totals do not include other groups
(i.e. other than refugees by the UNHCR definition) of concern to
the UNHCR and Palestinians assisted by the UN Relief and Works
Agency.
|
Ministry
|
Year
|
Minister (b)
|
Intake
(c)
|
|
Curtin
|
1945
|
Calwell (ALP)
|
|
|
Chifley
|
1946
|
Calwell (ALP)
|
|
| |
1947 (d)
|
Calwell (ALP)
|
34 284
|
| |
1948
|
Calwell (ALP)
|
46 569
|
| |
1949
|
Calwell (ALP)
|
114 818
|
|
Menzies
|
1950
|
Holt (Lib)
|
184 889
|
| |
1951
|
Holt (Lib)
|
153 290
|
| |
1952
|
Holt (Lib)
|
130 462
|
| |
1953
|
Holt (Lib)
|
95 890
|
| |
1954
|
Holt (Lib)
|
86 468
|
| |
1955
|
Holt (Lib)
|
124 180
|
| |
1956
|
Holt (Lib)
|
132 628
|
| |
1957
|
Townley (Lib)
|
120 601
|
| |
1958
|
Downer (Lib)
|
107 978
|
| |
1959
|
Downer (Lib)
|
116 697
|
| |
1960
|
Downer (Lib)
|
105 887
|
| |
1961
|
Downer (Lib)
|
108 291
|
| |
1962
|
Downer (Lib)
|
85 808
|
| |
1963
|
Downer (Lib)
|
101 888
|
| |
1964
|
Opperman (Lib)
|
122 318
|
| |
1965
|
Opperman (Lib)
|
140 152
|
|
Holt
|
1966
|
Opperman (Lib)
|
144 055
|
|
McEwen
|
1967
|
Snedden (Lib)
|
138 676
|
|
Gorton
|
1968
|
Snedden (Lib)
|
137 525
|
| |
1969
|
Snedden (Lib)
|
175 657
|
| |
1970
|
Lynch (Lib)
|
185 099
|
|
McMahon
|
1971
|
Forbes (Lib)
|
170 011
|
| |
1972
|
Forbes (Lib)
|
132 719
|
|
Whitlam
|
1973
|
Grassby (ALP)
|
107 401
|
| |
1974a (e)
|
Cameron (ALP)
|
112 712
|
| |
1975a
|
McClelland (ALP)
|
89 147
|
|
Fraser
|
1976
|
MacKellar (Lib)
|
52 748
|
| |
1977
|
MacKellar (Lib)
|
70 916
|
| |
1978
|
MacKellar (Lib)
|
73 171
|
| |
1979
|
MacKellar (Lib)
|
67 192
|
| |
1980
|
Macphee (Lib)
|
80 748
|
| |
1981
|
Macphee (Lib)
|
110 689
|
| |
1982
|
Hodges (Lib)
|
118 030
|
|
Hawke
|
1983
|
West (ALP)
|
93 010
|
| |
1984
|
West (ALP)
|
68 820
|
| |
1985
|
Hurford (ALP)
|
77 510
|
| |
1986
|
Hurford (ALP)
|
92 590
|
| |
1987
|
Young (ALP)
|
113 540
|
| |
1988
|
Holding (ALP)
|
143 480
|
| |
1989
|
Ray (ALP)
|
145 320
|
| |
1990
|
Hand (ALP)
|
121 230
|
| |
1991
|
Hand (ALP)
|
121 690
|
|
Keating
|
1992
|
Hand (ALP)
|
107 391
|
| |
1993
|
Bolkus (ALP)
|
76 330
|
| |
1994
|
Bolkus (ALP)
|
69 768
|
| |
1995
|
Bolkus (ALP)
|
87 428
|
|
Howard
|
1996
|
Ruddock (Lib)
|
99 139
|
| |
1997
|
Ruddock (Lib)
|
85 752
|
| |
1998
|
Ruddock (Lib)
|
77 327
|
| |
1999
|
Ruddock (Lib)
|
84 143
|
| |
2000
|
Ruddock (Lib)
|
92 272
|
| |
2001
|
Ruddock (Lib)
|
107 366
|
| |
2002
|
Ruddock (Lib)
|
88 900
|
Notes:
(a) All figures are for
the financial year ending 30 June.
(b) Ministers indicated are those holding office for the majority
of the year. (During the period of the 'caretaker' Government of
Malcolm Fraser in November and December 1975, the Minister for
Labour and Immigration was Anthony Street).
(c) The settler intake includes permanent and long-term arrivals
before 19581959.
(d) The 1947 figure includes arrivals from October 1945.
(e) The Department of Immigration was amalgamated with Labour
between 1974 and 1976.
|
Year
|
Asylum
claims
|
|
198990
|
3 373
|
|
199091
|
14 020
|
|
199192
|
9 718
|
|
199293
|
3 087
|
|
199394
|
2 800
|
|
199495
|
4 516
|
|
199596
|
7 640
|
|
199697
|
11 135
|
|
199798
|
8 101
|
|
199899
|
8 257
|
|
199900
|
12 713
|
|
200001
|
13 015
|
|
200102
|
11 635
|
Source:
Immigration Department Annual Reports.
|
Year
|
Number
of boats
|
Total
arrivals
|
Min/max
on board
|
|
198990
|
3
|
224
|
26/119
|
|
199091
|
5
|
158
|
3/77
|
|
199192
|
3
|
78
|
10/56
|
|
199293
|
4
|
194
|
2/113
|
|
199394
|
6
|
194
|
4/58
|
|
199495
|
21
|
1 071
|
5/118
|
|
199596
|
14
|
589
|
4/86
|
|
199697
|
13
|
365
|
4/139
|
|
199798
|
13
|
157
|
3/30
|
|
199899
|
42
|
921
|
2/112
|
|
199900
|
75
|
4 175
|
3/353
|
|
200001
|
54
|
4 137
|
2/231
|
|
200102
|
6
|
1 212
|
60/359
|
|
2002
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Totals
|
159
|
13 475
|
2/359
|
Note:
Arrivals 13 475
Australian births 142
Total boat people 13 617
Source: DIMIA Fact Sheet No. 74, Unauthorised arrivals by air
and sea, DIMIA web-site, last update: 27 November 2002.
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